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Thursday, June 23, 2011

Theme Thursday: Male Person


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Rules
*A theme will be posted each week on Thursday
*Select a conversation/snippet/sentence from your current book that features the theme
*Post it and don't forget to mention the author and title of the book
*Event is open for the whole week
*Link back to Reading Between the Pages

Since we just celebrated Father's Day, she thought it would be only fair to mention the remarkable men who are or have been part of our lives. This week's theme is Male Person.
Here is mine from The Savage Garden by Mark Mills (p. 6):
"I was just thinking," he lied, "that your narrator's a man. Unless she's a woman who happens to play cricket for the village team."
"So?"
"It's a challenge, I imagine, writing a male narrator."
"You don't think I'm up to it?"
"I didn't say that."
"Four brothers," she said, holding up three fingers.


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10 comments:

  1. fredamansJune 23, 2011 at 3:40 PM

    Great find!

    http://fredasvoice.blogspot.com/2011/06/theme-thursdays-male-person.html

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  2. Laurel-Rain SnowJune 23, 2011 at 3:49 PM

    Ah, I like it! Thanks for sharing, and for visiting my blog.

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  3. ShirleyJune 23, 2011 at 4:05 PM

    With four brothers, she's almost an expert!

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  4. CatJune 23, 2011 at 5:56 PM

    That's a good one. Living with four brothers would leave her well qualified for the job.

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  5. AnnJune 23, 2011 at 6:53 PM

    I'm off to look this book up - it sounds too good not to add to the TBR pile! Thanks for stopping by my blog earlier :)

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  6. Lauren BJune 24, 2011 at 7:03 AM

    Wonderful snippet - great interpretation of the theme.
    Here's mine:
    http://laurenstvtotebookbag.blogspot.com/2011/06/thursday-theme-3.html

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  7. EnbrethilielJune 24, 2011 at 2:09 PM

    +JMJ+

    Four brothers but three fingers? I'm clearly missing the punchline. =/

    You know what this reminds me of? That scene in the movie As Good as It Gets, in which Jack Nicholson's author character is approached by a fan who wants to know how he writes women so well. He replies: "I think of a man and then take away reason and accountablity." LOL!!!

    What's most interesting to me in the Savage Garden excerpt is that the person challenging the writer character is lying. So he's either just teasing or trying to distract the woman.

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  8. Bev HankinsJune 24, 2011 at 9:08 PM

    Actually, she holds up three fingers because they've both been indulging in a bit too much wine....

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  9. EnbrethilielJune 25, 2011 at 4:37 AM

    +JMJ+

    That makes more sense. =) Thanks, Bev!

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  10. BuffyJune 25, 2011 at 11:42 AM

    nice one!

    Here's mine:

    http://situationswhereyoumayneedit.blogspot.com/2011/06/theme-thusday-perelandra-by-cs-lewis.html

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